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Service interruptions
March 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in Sem categoria | No Comments »
My hosting provider is updating its MySQL boxes, so some services might suffer small periods of unavailability. If you have problems accessing one of these services, please try again some time later:
This blog
Downloading Slackware packages, page statistics, etc. from my main site
My TRS-80 Wiki
These interruptions will occur during the coming week and should last a [...]
Starting a text-based program on a headless box at boot time
February 16th, 2010 by Niels Horn in Sem categoria | No Comments »
Imagine yourself in the following situation:
You have a "headless" (this means: without a monitor attached) server that boots nicely, starts all the services you configured, like dns, ntp, nfs, samba, httpd, mysql, etc. But - since it has processing power left and stays on 24×7, you decide that it could do something extra that you [...]
inadyn, a Dynamic DNS client for Linux
February 12th, 2010 by Niels Horn in Sem categoria | No Comments »
Whoever has an ISP that regularly changes your IP address, knows the difficulties of accessing your computer at home from remote locations. If the IP address changes all the time, how can you access your home system through a browser, ssh, etc.
There are actually several solutions for this, like DynDNS, where you can register a [...]